School Vaccine Clinic Shut Down by Right-Wing Sabotage Campaign

[Nevilledog]

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A viral video shared by “Libs of TikTok” was part of a bid to spread fear about kids supposedly getting the vaccine under false pretenses

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School Vaccine Clinic Shut Down by Right-Wing Sabotage Campaign
A viral video shared by “Libs of TikTok” was part of a bid to spread fear about kids supposedly getting the vaccine under false pretenses.
1:00 PM · Jan 30, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/school-vaccine-clinic-shut-down-by-right-wing-sabotage-campaign


A Colorado school district said it won’t be letting kids get vaccinated on its campuses after one parent’s campaign to sabotage the school clinic culminated in a video going viral on right-wing Twitter.

Gregg McGough, the father of a 15-year-old high-school student, circulated a video that showed his son trying to obtain a vaccine at school by lying about his age and providing a fake note of parental consent. McGough told the Colorado Sun that his goal in sharing the video was to shut down the vaccination clinic at Littleton Public School and to prevent other clinics from cropping up in schools in the future, ostensibly by showing that students could obtain inoculations by simply forging notes from their parents.

In addition to a video showing McGough’s son, Owen, apparently misleading vaccine workers, a second video showed another student offering up a fake name, “Draper Ensling,” and giving a phony date of birth.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Owen McGough said he was behind the videos and that he worked with another student to get around requirements for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccine from a clinic hosted at Heritage High School “without very much effort at all.”

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[Walleye]

1. So this was all a stunt? The kid didn't really wanna be vaccinated?

[SharonClark]

2. and presented false information.

Is that legal?